I just finished reading all the emails between OOT and you that he sent me to get my advice. I tried to warn him to be careful with you right from the start. I see that when he asked you in a nice way if you posted something anonymously that was saying bad things about him, you right away turned into miss Fatal Attraction. I think it was you posting anonymously all along. The post you posted here last night when you were logged in says the exact same thing as the anonymous one he was asking you about. I say you were pretending to be his friend while you were posting bad things about him anonymously. It is very interesting that he got a trojan on his computer right after he downloaded pictures you sent him. I saw many interesting things in your emails, like you trying to get his mailing address in a few different ways many times right from the start. All he ever got in the mail from you was an empty envelope. I told him to change his email, phone and mailing address that he gave to you immediately. Whats up with you trying to get everyone here to email you? That looks like it could be an attempt to get the email address of everyone here. If anyone here wants to do that, you better do it from a temporary email address. I knew better than to give you my real email address or to call you when you tried to get me to.

You know who I am Jackie. But you don’t know what my field is. IT Security.

I’ve tried to follow along and read this, but I’m getting more confused the more I read.

What, exactly, will this bill do?

We got the 13 week extension in early August. Is this an additional 7, 13 or 20 weeks on top of that? And, someone mentioned a $50 cap. What is that?

My wife has been out of work since May of 2007. Her benefits expired. Her extension is about to. It’s been on me for, what seems like forever.

What would this bill provide? We live in New Jersey. She’s applied everywhere, and even was told she had a job only to be called and told that the position was filled by a ‘family member’ instead.

Any help is appreciated as I’m lost and can’t spend a ton of time researching from work for fear that, I too may be among the ranks of the unemployed if I spend too much time on non-work related tasks.

Societies about the world are faced with an unprecedented crisis. We are rushing headlong into a perfect storm with only the vaguest idea how to change course. We seem to be impaled on the horns of a practical dilemma. We perpetuate the high-consumption lifestyles of the previous century at our peril.

Yet neither, we are told, can we simply choose to abandon these lifestyles, since this would threaten the prosperity and stability of our economies and throw us into a recession from which, in light of our situation, we may never emerge.

What is to be done? When one cannot move forward or back, the only option is to step off the path. We must take a lateral step into another way of thinking and being.

Most people today see the crisis for what it is and heed the challenges it presents. What we have yet to discover, appropriate and realize are the new opportunities, latent in this situation, which could make this crisis a remarkable, transformative moment in the history of our species. Our challenge today is see these opportunities and to make them our own. The end of the world is, potentially, the beginning of a new one.

Alexis was in love with life. Fresh out of art school in Fremantle, Australia, she’d picked up a scholarship to study photography under a famous Parisian photographer. Her mother had urged caution, but Alexis persisted – and thank goodness! The course – and Paris itself – was everything that she’d hoped. Her French sponsor found her an apartment in the Latin Quarter, just a stone’s throw from the Place Saint-Michel. Alexis would stroll along the Seine in the evening, up the Champs Elysées to take pictures of the Arc de Triomphe in the flurry of lights. After two months documenting daily life on the streets of Paris, she had enough material for an exhibition. Alexis felt like she was at the heart of life. Things could go anywhere from here.

One night Alexis was speaking to an old friend in Australia. They were reminiscing about their student days, which the friend dearly missed.

‘Do you remember Nietzsche’s idea of the eternal return?’ the friend asked. ‘If I had to choose one time of my life to live out again and again, it would be art school days’.

Alexis, for her part, was ambivalent about the ‘good old days’. She realized then that if there were a time in her life that she would have again and again, it would be her time in Paris, not Fremantle. The more that she reflected on this, the more her life seemed to come into focus. Looking out her window at the bustling streets, she imagined Nietzsche’s demon coming into her room and making her the offer of Eternal Return. Alexis could hear herself reply:

‘Yes. You are a god and I have never heard anything more divine’.

What does it mean to live in a world of change? Heraclitus’ answer is simple. To live in a world of change is to be constantly changing.

We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not’ My idea seems to be that no one can step into the same river twice. This is because the river is constantly changing. But surely, one might respond, a river only changes within its banks? If one accepts that a river is defined by its course, it remains the same river irrespective on how much changes goes on between its banks.

This may be true but it misses the point. What I am saying is that, along the banks, the material substance of the river is constantly changing. If you stand on the side of the Danube, the water before you is not the same water from moment to moment. If the river is this water – the water that flows past the banks – then the Danube is not the same river from moment to moment. We step into Danube, we step out again. When we step into it again, we step into different water, and thus effectively, a different river.

Furthermore, we step into and out of the river as different beings.

Most interpretations of the river’s fragment focus on the idea of the river as a state of flux. But one must say more than this in the fragment: ‘We are and are not’.

The river changes and so do you!

People today are familiar with the principle of biological generation and corruption. We all are puzzled over this principle two thousand years before the rise of modern biological science and drew its ultimate lessons for the human condition. As material beings, we do not simply live in a world of flux – we are flux. We are growing and dying all the time, consuming light and resources to replicate our structure, while shedding matter continuously.

The lesson is that change and death are omnipresent features of the natural world. As living beings, we are dying all the time – as Heraclitus says, ‘living our death and dying our life’.

Don’t underestimate the desire to think and learn. You know what Parmenides said — thinking and being are the same.

Don’t underestimate the wonder in discovering a new sentiment or passion. Do you remember the first time you fell in love?

Don’t underestimate the value of learning a new activity, or acquiring the ability to tackle a new task. These things can transform lives.

Don’t underestimate the human need to be and belong. To say ‘I am…’ and have that mean something… It gives meaning to life.

What do these things have in common? They are forms of empowerment.

No one knows what they are capable of thinking, feeling, doing, or being. The adventure of life is to find out.

Change doesn’t need to be something that we passively endure. Through philosophical reflection, it is possible to turn our anxiety about change around. We can change the way that we experience change, such that we no longer perceive it as a battle and ordeal, but as an opportunity – an opportunity to change ourselves for the better, to explore new ways of living and being.

We must learn to see the opportunity in change. We must learn to make the decisive shift from passivity to empowerment, from seeing change as an ordeal to seeing change as an adventure.

True leaders know what to do with change. They see what’s empowering in it.

Two towns sat on opposite sides of a river in the shadow of some mountains. The glaciers set into the mountains glistened in the morning sun.

For years, traffic had passed between the towns by way of small boats. But one day, a consortium of men built a low toll-bridge across the river. It soon absorbed all the traffic from the boats. The toll was expensive, but the bridge was safer than the boats, so people used it. Before long, a continuous stream of people crossed the bridge from one town to the other. The consortium of men became rich, the economies of both towns expanded, and everyone was happier as a result.

For a while it seemed the good life would go on forever. Then the glaciers began to melt. The river rose higher in its bed.

I was a citizen of one of the towns. When I heard that the glaciers were melting, I went to the consortium of men.

‘Look’, I said. ‘The glaciers are melting. Soon the river will rise above the toll-bridge and no one will be able to cross the river. What will happen to the markets then? We must phase out the bridge and build a new fleet of boats to ferry traffic across the river. This is our crisis today. We must rise up like the river to meet it!’

The rich men laughed .

‘Do you know how much it costs to build a fleet of boats?’ they said. ‘Where will all this money for this come from? From the taxpayer, of course! And who will want to live by the river when the taxes are so high? You talk about saving economies, but you don’t know the first thing about economics. We do. We shall stick with the toll-bridge and preserve the status quo. Who would believe that the river would rise above the bridge in any case?’

Undefeated, I went away and built a boat. Soon he’d launched a small business ferrying people back and forth across the river.

The sun shone and the glaciers melted and river rose higher in its bed. Before long, it was overflowing the bridge. More people were using a friend’s ferry service across the river, worried about losing stock in the water as they carted it across.

The rich men said to themselves: ‘he was right. The river is going to overflow the bridge. We must diversify our business in order to capture other markets. We must invest in boats, not bridges – the future is in boats!’

The rich men changed their thinking. They built a whole fleet of ferry boats. The small, reasonably priced and reliable ferry service could not compete with them. Soon the consortium had monopolized the ferry-boat system, and I was driven out of business.

Once again, the rich men laughed at me.

‘You changed to boats while we stayed with bridges’, they observed. ‘Thus we became richer while you struggled to open up this new market. It was only when we no longer saw money in bridges that we shifted to boats – and now your ferry-boat system has made us richer than ever. You should have followed our example. You should have invested in bridges while the waters rose’.

I smiled in return. ‘I have always invested in bridges’, he said. ‘While you were protecting your investments, I built a bridge to the future’.

The 20th century was an age of ideologies. People lived and died for their beliefs about human nature and the nature of society, its destiny and future. ‘Capitalism’ and ‘communism’ were totemic code words for opposing visions of the good life.

The 21st century is unlikely to witness the same ideological fervor. This is not because people have outgrown the need for ideas expressing the truth about human nature. It is because climate change has placed the destiny and future of our societies in question.

Rather than a new ideology, our century needs a Stoic revivalism. Like us, the Greek and Roman Stoic’s lived in an age of crisis. The ancient city-states had yielded to war and empire. The old gods had survived, but failed to inspire a living faith. Political leaders bickered and fought without any social vision. Anxiety was the order of the day.

Stoic philosophy was shaped by all this. In a world of constant change, the Stoics sought to develop a philosophical account of the challenges presented by change. This is what makes the Stoics relevant to us today.

The Stoic thinker is beset by a world beyond their control. Like a sailor on a stormy sea, they must find out what is within their control, and tie themselves to that mast for the sake of their survival. Here is the crux of it: according to the Stoics, the only thing you and I have any real power to control is the way that we respond to the world, our emotional and intellectual responses.

The Stoic philosophy-as-life hinges on cultivating the power within.

The Stoics may have been optimistic about the extent of control that is granted by reason (significantly, they don’t have a concept of the unconscious, as we’ve had since Nietzsche and Freud). But their influence on medieval and modern thought is decisive. To cope and endure in a world of change, the inner life of reason must become a sanctum against the world, sealed off against storms and upheavals, sheltered from the blows of fate. To negotiate and even flourish in a world of change, we must become guardians of our inner world, champions of our rational tranquility.

The Stoic rule is:

‘There is one thing I know I can control, and that is how I respond to events’.

The Stoic lesson is:

‘To find tranquility in the midst of change, and fulfillment in relation to the challenges of fate, cultivate the power within’.

Regarding the slow but inevitable transformation of national economies from ‘dirty’ to ‘clean’ productive systems, the level of dissemblance and denial among political leaders today is painful to watch. It is no longer possible for respectable politicians to try to deny the role of industrial societies in causing climate change. Yet neither (apparently) can responsible economic mangers (and what is a political leader today but the de facto CEO of a giant business corporation?) throw caution to the wind and restructure the economy along carbon neutral lines – at least not until it is clear that everyone else is doing the same thing (incurring the same costs and gambling on the same benefits). In the evolution of the global political debate over how to address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, the question is not yet: ‘How are we going to change?’ It remains: ‘Who is going to change first?’

Our situation is analogous to that of a group of castaways huddled aboard a sinking raft, which has washed against a reef surrounding a tiny atoll. A shark patrols the lagoon between the reef and the shore. The castaways know that the first of them to dive into the water and swim for shore will get eaten by the shark. The raft is sinking, and sooner or later all of them will end up in the drink, but no one wants to go first. The best strategy would be to swim for it together. But who could trust the others to dive into the water at the crucial time? Perhaps all they can do is sit tight on the sinking raft and wait for it to go down. Then they will be forced to swim for their lives.

Is this not a fair depiction of our current situation?

If so, we should start a conversation about how we are going to deal with it.

I held a light out for you last night…
As the sands of time slide through the entrances and exits of all that is sacred, seen and unseen, humanity’s future is unveiled as it is seen in a full spectrum of possibility that has not existed before this time. As each person walks forward in their life, there is a set of energetic time prints, that they announce to the world. As earth walks forward into newly formed dunes of progression it will seem and feel as if one is left completely alone. No one beside them, to hold them, to help them, to assist them or ‘sew it seams’. The energies of the Angels on high come to lift you into a place where you can not fall or falter. The restless flight ends as the angels on high escort you into a safe harbor

Time asks you to not give up on what lives in your heart and lives in your dream. The Universe has placed within you a seed that cannot die, that cannot be sown over. The Universe has placed in you a time imprint that asks to be viewed under the microscopic eye of your heart.

Earth herself wades through a deep level of fear, she processes as we process. Humans fear the war, the debt, lack of money and loss of control. Earth herself and all her inhabitants are at a turning point that asks everyone to be explicit in the expression of every passing thought for they all count. No more excuses for the mistaken choices of those in power as they look for ways to polish their own metals.

As of this summertime, higher echelons of light will be integrated into the soul patterns of those that have asked. Every individual upon Earth has an opportunity to ask for Divine assistance, for Divine acknowledgment, for Divine intervention. Many allow themselves to be washed about in a tidal pull as the waves crest pushing them about.

Each thought that humanity has is more important than the thought before. Within Each thought wisdom either increases or decreases exponentially. Every interaction with every person gives you food for thought to be digested at your own discretion. When you hear sad news move your heart and your energies up to a safe place where one can see the totality of the situation and choose action accordingly.

Those that wear the higher patterns of light and time without the constraints of Earth will be asked to go beyond what they deem suitable for their experiences as well as commitment to the cause. What this means is that you will be given deep soul insights that will ask you to fly higher, move more mountains and dance through space as well as time. You will be given instructions from the Universe within your heart that ask you to surpass any limitation you thought you had. You will be asked to become one with the legions of light, the legions of God that have no fear. the legions of heart light that hold the heart of humanity within the very palms of their hands.

So many of earth have chosen not to change, not to move forward, not to believe and not to trust, even themselves. So many of Earth have given up, have not seen their absentee landlord God in many moons, have not felt the presence of holiness, have not seen the manifestations of miracles. What humanity seeks as the proof of the pudding is so animated that it actually has taken form and walks upon earth disguised in humanity and humility.

The energy of miracles desired may have taken the forms of raindrops that were deeply prayed for on one street but not another. What you seek as a planet now has more mass to it. The biology has changed and shifted in the land of the supernatural, the land of the unseen. The belief system of Earth has faltered because many do not see with the eyes of Faith.

Most have given up being rescued, most have given up on the angels, and many have given up on God. As a planet you are asked to believe in what is invisible, what cannot be seen, what cannot be felt or touched or smelled or tasted. You are asked to believe in a supernatural being that has placed you here for your highest good and your highest growth and then walked away to another project. You have been asked to believe that every loss, every death every dark day has a divine opportunity wrapped within it – a chewy center that you often stick to.

We come to tell you that the matter of it is the miracle that you seek walks amongst you. It listens when you speak, it dances in your dreams, it sees the patterns of your heart. The miracles that humanity so needs is guaranteed by the universe if one will only believe to the final hour. for a miniscule pattern of doubt creates a lethal toxicity that cannot be diluted.

As the planets line up and the eclipses of the heart begin to stake themselves out, a deep deluge of emotions, are raised to the surface – angers and hates, loves and tears are birthed under a sunset full red moon. As the eclipses of August 2009 (solar) and August 2009 (lunar) make themselves felt and seen many of Earth will begin to scream they are a victim of wrong doings.

As these eclipses birth themselves through the dark womb of life a blue veil of sadness will befall Earth, a heaviness of the heart. A great global saddening weighs down the pulse of earth. Many earthly upheavals will come and people will cry out to the Creator and the Savior for rescue. Rescue is slow to mount their steeds. We must continue to swim to shore praying with every stroke.

It is a time of becoming a living breathing prayer for someone outside of your self. The sadness that befalls is biological and deep of cellular and stellar content. A giant purging occurs on all of Earth as the planetary heart heaves a deep sign. There is nothing to do but try heard to stay afloat during this rouge tidal wave. Choices cannot be seen in the clear light of day. Many will truly panic and the monetary system of Earth will show that. It is up to each and every one of you to hold high your contract of light above the watermarks of life. Life is circular of nature and this too shall pass but each day and night seems a year long. People that you have taken for granted may walk out of your life or off the planet. People will make choices that do not make sense to anyone around them. Often times these cellular biological upheavals are necessary to expose another shaft of light.

We are the warriors of light. Do not falter but continue walking forward for there is an end and beginning to all storms. What matters in your world. We are always here for you.

NJ- My benefit year ended at the end of August, my extension was stopped and I was told to reapplied for a new claim. I qualified for a new claim can collect for another 6 months. New Jersey must have 2 benefit years, I had two quarters toward a new claim.

GOOD DAY ALL ANOTHER YOUNG REPUBLICAN TOAST:
When the President submits his budget to Congress, each agency generally provides detailed justification materials to the House and Senate appropriations subcommittees with jurisdiction over its funding. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, as amended, (the Congressional Budget Act)8 requires Congress to adopt an annual budget resolution.9 The budget resolution is Congress’s response to the President’s budget. The budget resolution must cover at least five fiscal years: the upcoming fiscal year plus the four subsequent fiscal years. The budget resolution, in part, sets total new budget authority and outlay levels for each fiscal year covered by the resolution. It also distributes federal spending among 20 functional categories (such as national defense, agriculture, and transportation) and sets similar levels for each function.
Within each chamber, the total new budget authority and outlays for each fiscal
year are also distributed among committees with jurisdiction over spending, thereby
setting spending ceilings for each committee (see “Allocations” section below).10
The House and Senate Committees on Appropriations receive ceilings only for the
upcoming fiscal year, because appropriations measures are annual. Once the
appropriations committees receive their spending ceilings, they separately distribute
the funding among their respective subcommittees, providing spending ceilings for
each subcommittee. Congress annually considers several appropriations measures, which provide
funding for numerous activities, for example, national defense, education, homeland
security, crime, as well as general government operations. Congress has developed
certain rules and practices for the consideration of appropriations measures, referred
to as the congressional appropriations process.
Appropriations measures are under the jurisdiction of the House and Senate
Appropriations Committees. These measures provide only about 40% of total federal
spending for a fiscal year. The House and Senate legislative committees control the
rest.
There are three types of appropriations measures. Regular appropriations bills
provide most of the funding that is provided in all appropriations measures for a
fiscal year, and must be enacted by October 1 of each year. If regular bills are not
enacted by the deadline, Congress adopts continuing resolutions to continue funding
generally until regular bills are enacted. Supplemental appropriations bills provide
additional appropriations and are typically considered later.
Each year Congress considers a budget resolution that, in part, sets spending
ceilings for the upcoming fiscal year. Both the House and Senate have established
parliamentary rules that may be used to enforce certain spending ceilings associated
with the budget resolution during consideration of appropriations measures in the
House and Senate, respectively.
Congress has also established an authorization-appropriation process that
provides for two separate types of measures — authorization bills and appropriation
bills. These measures perform different functions and are to be considered in
sequence. First, authorization bills establish, continue, or modify agencies or
programs. Second, appropriations measures may provide spending for the agencies
and programs previously authorized.
Congress annually considers several appropriations measures, which provide
funding for numerous activities, such as national defense, education, homeland
security, crime, and general government operations. These measures are considered
by Congress under certain rules and practices, referred to as the congressional
appropriations process. This report discusses the following aspects of this process:
! annual appropriations cycle;
! appropriations measures (types);
! spending ceilings for appropriations associated with the annual
budget resolution; and
! relationship between authorization and appropriation measures.
When considering appropriations measures, Congress is exercising the power
granted to it under the Constitution, which states, “No money shall be drawn from
the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”1 The power to
appropriate is a legislative power. Congress has enforced its prerogatives with laws
setting limits on U.S. government officials. A U.S. government employee, for
example, may not commit the government to spend more than the amount
appropriated by law and may not make such government funding obligations before
an appropriation funding those activities becomes law, unless such action is
statutorily authorized.2 An appropriation may be used only for the programs and
activities for which Congress made the appropriation, except as otherwise provided
by law.3
The President has an important role in the appropriations process by virtue of
his constitutional power to approve or veto entire measures, unless Congress
overrides a veto. He also has influence, in part, because of various duties imposed
by statute, such as submitting an annual budget to Congress.
The House and Senate Committees on Appropriations have jurisdiction over the
annual appropriations measures. At the beginning of the 110th Congress, both
committees reorganized their subcommittees. Each committee now has 12
subcommittees and each subcommittee has jurisdiction over an annual
appropriations measure that provides funding for departments and agencies under the
subcommittee’s jurisdiction.4
The jurisdictions of these House and Senate appropriations subcommittees are
generally parallel. That is, each House appropriations subcommittee is paired with
a Senate appropriations subcommittee and the two subcommittees’ jurisdictions are
generally identical.
The President initiates the appropriations process by submitting his annual
budget for the upcoming fiscal year5 to Congress. He is required to submit his annual
budget on or before the first Monday in February.6 Congress has, however, provided
deadline extensions; both statutorily and, sometimes, informally.7
The President recommends spending levels for various programs and agencies
of the federal government in the form of budget authority (or BA) because Congress
provides budget authority instead of cash to agencies. Budget authority is the
authority provided by federal law to incur financial obligations that will result in
immediate or future expenditures (or outlays) involving federal funds. Examples of
financial obligations include entering into contracts to build a submarine or purchase
supplies. The resulting outlays are payments from the Treasury, usually in the form
of checks or electronic funds transfers.
An FY2006 appropriations act, for example, provided $1.6 billion in new
budget authority for FY2006 to the Department of Defense (DOD) to build a nuclear
attack submarine. That is, the act gave DOD legal authority to sign contracts to build
the submarine. The department could not commit the government to pay more than
$1.6 billion. The outlays occur when government payments are made to the
contractor.
An appropriation is a type of budget authority that not only provides the
authority to make obligations, but also gives the agency legal authority to make the
subsequent payments from the Treasury. Appropriations must be obligated in the
fiscal year(s) for which they are provided. Appropriations measures provide new
budget authority (as opposed to previously enacted budget authority).
Not all new budget authority provided for a fiscal year is expended that year.
For example, in the case of construction projects, the outlays may occur over several
years as various stages of the project are completed.
In other cases, such as federal employee salaries, the outlays may occur in the same
fiscal year for which the appropriations are provided.
As Congress considers appropriations measures providing new budget authority
for a particular fiscal year, discussions on the resulting outlays only involve
estimates. Data on the actual outlays for a fiscal year are not available until the fiscal

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9. (a) If an employee on the staff of a Member, upon
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Member’s staff for a period of one year after leaving that
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(b) If an employee on the staff of a committee, upon
leaving his position, becomes such a registered lobbyist or is
employed or retained by such a registered lobbyist or an entity
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10. Paragraphs 8 and 9 shall not apply to contacts with
the staff of the Secretary of the Senate regarding compliance
with the lobbying disclosure requirements of the Lobbying
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a registered lobbyist, or is employed or retained by such a
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that Member (including staff in personal, committee, and
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spouse or immediate family member that constitutes a lobbying
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(b) Members and employees on the staff of a Member
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of Government with respect to non-legislative matters affecting
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Select Committee.

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public disclosure, regarding such negotiations or arrangements
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negotiation or arrangement, including the name of the private
entity or entities involved in such negotiations or
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commenced.

(b) A Member shall not negotiate or have any arrangement
concerning prospective employment for a job involving lobbying
activities as defined by the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995
until after his or her successor has been elected.

(2) The notification under this subparagraph shall be made
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(3) An employee to whom this subparagraph applies shall—

(A) recuse himself or herself from—

(i) any contact or communication with the
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(ii) any legislative matter in which there is
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subparagraph; and

(B) notify the Select Committee on Ethics of such
recusal.

15. For purposes of this rule—

(a) a Senator or the Vice President is the supervisor
of his administrative, clerical, or other assistants;

(b) a Senator who is the chairman of a committee is
the supervisor of the professional, clerical, or other
assistants to the committee except that minority staff
members shall be under the supervision of the ranking
minority Senator on the committee;

(d) the President pro tempore is the supervisor of
the Secretary of the Senate, Sergeant at Arms and
Doorkeeper, the Chaplain, the Legislative Counsel, and
the employees of the Office of the Legislative Counsel;

(e) the Secretary of the Senate is the supervisor of
the employees of his office;

(f) the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper is the
supervisor of the employees of his office;

(g) the Majority and Minority Leaders and the
Majority and Minority Whips are the supervisors of the
research, clerical, or other assistants assigned to
their respective offices;

(h) the Majority Leader is the supervisor of the
Secretary for the Majority and the Secretary for the
Majority is the supervisor of the employees of his
office; and

Committee / Members
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry / 18
Appropriations / 28
Armed Services / 18
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs / 18
Commerce, Science, and Transportation / 20
Energy and Natural Resources / 20
Environment and Public Works / 18
Finance / 20
Foreign Relations / 18
Governmental Affairs / 16
Judiciary / 18
H.E.L.P. / 18
3.(a) Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 4 of this rule, each of the following standing committees shall consist of the number of Senators set forth in the following table on the line on which the name of that committee appears:

Committee / Members
Budget / 22
Rules and Administration / 16
Veterans’ Affairs / 12
Small Business / 18
b) Each of the following committees and joint committees shall consist of the number of Senators (or Senate members, in the case of a joint committee) set forth in the following table on the line on which the name of that committee appears:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives plans to debate legislation this month to inject another $50 billion of stimulus into the faltering U.S. economy, mostly with the goal of creating new jobs, a senior House Democratic aide said on Monday.

Amid fears of wider economic damage from turmoil on Wall Street, the roughly $50 billion would aim to spark needed road, bridge and other construction projects that help create jobs, with details still being worked out, the aide said.

The money also would be used to help low-income families pay winter heating bills and to extend unemployment benefits.

Early this year, a $168 billion economic stimulus measure was enacted.

Democrats also hope to include in this second economic stimulus measure more aid to states that are facing higher Medicaid health care costs.

“Jobs, jobs, jobs. That’s what it’s about,” according to the aide, who said the bulk of the stimulus money would be for creating new jobs.

Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, also told reporters that an economic stimulus plan he wants the Senate to pass is “in the ballpark” of $50 billion.

The Bush administration and Congress worked together to pass the first economic stimulus law. So far, the White House is resisting a second one.

AnonNJ(1): The bill calls for an additional 7 weeks on top of the 13 we got (total of 20 wks); AnonNJ(2): You’re lucky you got another benefit year. My year also ended the end of August, but because I didn’t work since, I was denied the new year. Did you work after your benefits ended? Prior to being laid off, I had worked full time for 30+ years.

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